THE VIONTROSE DEMOCRAT. VOLUME XXX. E. B. HAWLEY & Co., Pioprietors. Business Cards. B. te A. IL ..IteCOLLU.II; ATTnIifTTO ST LA. Warr over the Bank. Montrose Pa. Montrose, May 10. lan. tf D. W. BRARLS, ATTO/LNIZT AT LAW. office over the Store of A. Lathrop, In the litriet. Block. Montrose. Pa. [tot 6D W. W. SMITE; CABDINT AND CHAIR MANIMPACTURIMtB.—Pnet of Yen street. Montrose. Pa. hug. 1. 180. M. C. SUTTON, alettoneer, and Innrance Agent, Prlendoville. Pa. S. GILBERT, Cr. EL, ALlzemticionoor. otr Great Bend, Pa A If I EL 7", V, B. .Baomot - 14o , rvoer. An. 1, 1069. Adtrese„ Broolzlra, Ps. ✓OLIN GROVES, Y ASIIIONM3LE TAILOR, Montrose. Pa. Shop over Chendlcr's Store. MI orders died to Cost-rate etyll.. Cutting done on abort notice, and warranted to St. J. F. SHOEMAKER, Attorser at Lew. Montrose. P. Office next door to J A. DeM7lit's store. opposslte the bank. Montrose. Jae. 17. 1t171.-003-Iy. B. L. BALD iv r,v, Ames re AT Law. Montrose, Pa Offlea wlth James E. Ca malt. Erg. .kugint 33, 1871. lf. A. 0. WARREN, • TTORNICY A: LAW. Bounty, Beek Pay. Pension sad Stem, on Claims attended to. (Mier dr deer below Boyd's Store. Montrose.Ms. (Au. 1.'69 W. A. CROSSMON, Attorney at Law, ()Mee at the Court Hons., to the Camm lonioner'• Orrice. W A. Caossnox. Mootrome, Scot 616.1871.-4 f. IfeKENZIE, & CO. Dmlers In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladies ■nd Misses /se Shoes. tl.o, agents fur the great American Tea and Coffee Company. [Montrose. July 17, ll.] DR W. IV. .4.1f/TLf, DISITTST. Rooms at hi. dwelling, next drinr .et nr the liepublinn prin. ing ofrire. OMor hogre from 9 • N. to 4 r. "Ann.-nee. Slay 2, LAW OFFICE. !ITCH & WATSON. Attorney. It Lav, at the old oftlee or Bentley & Fitch. Mont , ... Px L. r !ITCH. Wm 11. 1 ' !.! w. w. wrrwsx. J. Si UTTER, FASIZIONAIILR TAILOR. Shop over J. R. Den"ltl'o •kore. ABEL TURRELL, Desist. in Dram Medicines, Ch , m1.1.. Paints. Oila, 1 , 7 c stn? , . T.-as. spices. Far.cy •oci, Jewelry. Per. ruciery, Sc., Brick 8.0 ck.., Montr,se Pa 6•t5:..1.1.01 Ist!. (Fri,. 1, lea& DR. W. L. RICILII:DsoN, HYZICIAN d it:Itt:EON. tenders his protessloph rricse to the citizens or Mons ro-e and 1. icinity.- 0 thee at his maidsuce, eh the corner cast ii ti.s•cc grad. Fosodry. fAng. 1. litG9. CHARLES N. STODDARD. Hazer In Bow. and Shoe.•. Hate end Cap.. Lent-her and Finding Ilain 'etreet, let door below ISolo'• giorr. Work made to order. nod repairing done neatly. outro.e. Jae. I. MO. LEWIS KNOLL BRAVING AND HAIR DRESSING. Oho, In the ocw Doelorfice bliildino. where he 0111 foood mod, to attend all who may oythltag Is ►le floe. lloutruse Oct. 13. 13/19. DR W. DAYTON iN t SURGEON, tender. Ms gervieee ro tee e Us 'Os or Great Bend Jod 11 , lelty u(1.1% relddesee. opsaidte Barnum 1i0.ae,t..% Bend village. Sept. let. U DR D. A. LATIIII.9I', ♦i*talatera Et.ccrr, Ter:ma, lianta. at the Poet or Chaatent atzeeL C. 1.11 and ceose/t is all Chromic lal 1115 BAIRBER-11a! Ha.' Ha!! • Imley Morris Is the barber. who can ehere your face to order; Cuts brown, bbtet and artneley heir. in hi. officejeat op sten.. There you will find him, over Gen , . Inure. below MeKeuzles—ju.t one dour. Montrose. June 7.1.5:1.—tf C. YOUR'S. H. BURRITT. Peeler .• Staple and Fancy Dry Grlode.Proekery. rd• Ira's. Iron, Stoves. Druz, Oils. and Paha.. Boot. sad Shoes. Hats and cap., Furs, ISUffale Hones, Oro series. Provisions. Sc. Sew•Mtitord, la., Noy, 6, ":"I—tf. EXCH39GE HOTEL D. A. ToteCRACK.EN, whine!. to Inform tbepriblie that hattne reined the Exchange Hotel to Atoutroee. he le now prepared to seotaantudate the traveling public le era -class Kyle lloutreese. Aog. 13, Int BILLINGS STROUD. ? IRE AND LIFE I:I97.rIANCE ACENT. Al! bosiness attended topruram l). falr terms filet Ir.t door east of the bank a' Wm. 11. Caaper A Ca. anbile Arouse, Montrose, Pa. [Aar 1.1569. I'. 1872 j BILLING, arnoup. J. D. VAIL eldi*LeetrTwto Pe tract efl Vitt firlittrewl. Eft. perineriently iticeied hirrietilf h Ilantetwee. Pe where he will prompt ft anew+ Co ell calla In his profeeeloo with which he may frweree. Witte tort rweldence wcet of the Conn noose, near Fltcp t Watton's ode.. Uoninow. February FL IS 1. F. CHURCHILL Jamie. of it. tkeaccf. <Au over L. K, Leultehri• *lore, Gm , Bend bovon9h, Savquetotoos enuoty. PV1313 . .. 111 P 'he Set lemeot of the dockets of thr Lue lease hrel.hore. demur& Oflire boor. from 9to 19 .14.4ack • m awl from Ito 4 oVock p. Grist 144.9 Oct. 4.9, B CRAW & NICHOLS. g* , dRY Is Drag., Medicines, Ckecoleallo. Dye. at 41.. Puint..ol4. Varnish. Liquor.. Slsiece. Plumy 1r.c7.1.1. Patent. Mediu-Ince. Perfumery and Toilet Ar -1..e1e.. fir Presuriptthou carotalty cosaponado&— itrick Block. Montrose. Pa. A. IL Brava.- Aso. lizasou. • 9a7 71.1 an. gin - ALL KINDS 07 JOB PRINTING ETC ATZCIITILD AP TEI.II DEMOCRAT OFFICE, Wan Eon or PUBLIC Amur- the gotro (Eorncr. THE OLD MAN lIV THE STYLISH CEMIZCII BY JOIIS IL YATES. -0-- Well, wife, I've been to church to-day—been to stylish one— And ;melon you rant go from hotfie, I'll tell you what was done. You would have been surprised to see what I saw there to-day ; The elate a were fixed up so tine they hardly bo ved to pray. I had these coarse clothes of mine—not much the worse for wear— But, then, they knew I wasn't one they call a millionaire ; Bo they led the old man to a seat way back by the door; 'Twas booklats and uncushioned, a reacted *eat for the poor. Pretty soon In came a stranger with gold ring and clothing tine; They led him to a cushioned seat far In advance of mine ; I thought that wasn't exactly right to seat him up su near, When he was young and I was old, and very hard to hear. But, then there's no accountin' for what some people do; The finest clothing now-adays, oft gets the fi nest pew; But when we reach the blessed home,and unde filed by sin, We'll see wealth beggin' at the gate, while pov erty goes in. I couldn't bear the sermon I sat so far away : So through the hours of servtce, I could only "watch and pray;' Watch the dukes of the Christians near me, 'mond about, - , Pray that God would make them pure within, as they were pure without. While I sat there, lookln' all around upon the rich and meat, I kept thinkin' of the rich man and the beggar nt the gate ; How, by all hut dogs forsaken,the poor beggar's tom grew cola, And the angels bore his spirit to the mansions built of gold. llotc nt tact the rich man perished, and his spir it took its flight From the potpie and fine linen, to the home of endless night There he learned, as he stood grain' at the beg gar in the sky, "It isn't all ol life to live, nor all of death to I doubt not there were wealthy sires in that re ligions fold Who went np from from their d welling like the Marker of old; Then returned horn, horn their worship with a head uplifted high, To spurn the hungry from their door with naught to !wkly. Out! ! with suet] professions; they are do ing more to-day To stop the weary Rimier Irons the gosf;el's shinin' way Than all ti.e trrailc of infidels; than all that has been tritd Since Christ was born la Bethleham—sinee Christ was erueitied. How simple ate the works of God, and yet how eL..ry grand— The shell+ in ocean ezverns—the flowers on the land. He gills the clouds of erenin' with gold light front His throne_ Not for the rich man only—not for the poor aloud. Then why shonld man look down on man, de eauve of lack of gold? Why seat him in clue poorest pew because Ws clothes ate old ? A heart with noble motives- -a heart that God Las ble.a— May be iienven's masie 'neath that fad ed coat and vest. I'm old-1 may be childish—bet I lose simplic i'y I love ti; see it shinin' on a Chri•lttan's piety ; Jesus told us in in his bCnnon,in Judea's moun tain wild, lie that wants to go to !leaven must be like a child. Our beads are growing gray, dear wife—our beads pre beating slow— In a little while the Master will call us for to go; When we rench the pearly gateways, and look in with joyful eyes • We'll see no s•ylish worship in the temple of the Zhe ffitorg Zritcr. AUATOLIAN SPECTRE-STORY. It was in the Mohammedan or lunar month of Sha'aban which that year cor responded pretty nearly aith our Decein ber, and which. as preceding the thirty days' yearly fast of Itamadhan, iBlll some measures 'festive timefur the followers of the Prophet, a sort of Carnival before their severe Is-tit. Osmand Kaleeb-Zadeli, ' to give him his name in full, had sat up one night till rather lam in one of the coffee - houses—here the ordinary social resorts of the quarter,—amusing himself after the fashion of the country, by play ing backgammon with a friend of his own age and position and chatting on the ordinary topics of the time. When the coffee-house had to be closed,a little before midnight, they were the last to leave it; and More parting for the night, they agreed to meet early by the first dawn at the public bath close by, and afterwards to go togetliir into town upon some busi ness which they had arranged in coin mon. They then separated. Osman went home and to bed, intend ing to be up before daybreak and join his friend at the bath. Bat in the middle of his sleep he was sudeenly awakened by a sharp knocking it the door. Getting up quickly and opening it to see what was the mutter, he beheld standing outside what he supposed to he his companion of the evening before, with a lantern in his hand. The night was still, warm and overcast. with low, misty clouds, as nights often are here during the winter solstice, cold and storm rarely setting in before mid-January. What has brought you here so early?" he asked. "It is not yet near morning." How so?" replied the other! "the dawn has already broken, on ly 'tis cloudy and dark. It wo do not make haste we shall have ever so long to welt for our turn. Besides, the sooner the better; get your things ou and come." Hearing all this, Osman supposed that lie must have overslept himself, and was really behind time. So he slipped quiet ly back into the house, dressed himself and came out. His friend was still wait. ing for him, lantern in hand, at the door. "TRUTH AND RIGHT : GOD AND OUR COUNTRY.", 111ONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1873. No one else was up and stirring as they passed along the narrow lanes, now doub ly dark with overshadowing trees, talking familiarly as they went, till they came out on the little open space close by the coffee-house where Osman had spent the evening, where stands a noble planetree, and oppositi, beyond, is the low, dark en trance of the bath they were going to. But on one side the view opens out across the Xenos ravine to the battlemented, walls of the castle opposite ; and beyond these again rises high in air the tall stone minaret or mosque, once a Byzantine church, and now the principal place of Mohammedan worship within the limits of the:old fortified town. Here they stopped to breathe the fresh air a moment after the close,stifling lanes. It was a murky night. Osman looked cast, but there was no hint of dawn there; on ly the tapering outline of the minaret was traced faintly white against the blackness of the sky. "ilow far off it looks in the dusk, and how high !" he ex claimed. "Not so very far off, nor so very high neither," said the other,in a strange, altered voice, that made his companion start. "Suppose we just light it up— shall I ?" And without waiting for an an swer, he stretched out his arm, which suddenly lengthened right acrosss the valley before them, the city walls arid the houses beyond, till it reached the minaret and hung the lantern on the pointed summit, where it remained suspended, glittering like a star in the gloom. Terrified at the sight, Osman turned to ask—but his companion hind vanished and he was all alone in the silent night. Without waiting for more,he hurried buck albest he might to his own house, ewer eZ and threw himself, dressed as he was, upon the bead. His wife woke tip, and inquired what had happened to him— where he had been, lie gave some e‘a sive answer. and then tiny lay quiet.pre tending to go to sleep, and wish tug fur the morning. Only a few minutes holi•eeer, had thus passed, when rap it came to the door again. Osman turned a deaf ear at first, hilt when it aas repeated his wife awoke. anti, not suspecting what had occurred before, Legzeed her It us!!and to get up and see wh t was outside. Ashamed to own either his fears or their canses, Osmand reluctantly left the room. and open e d t . .• house door. There, sure enough, stood his friend—or the semblance of his friend —lantern in band, waiting. "Who ar e . c. , u ?" aAing Osman. The other stark d. -Why, do you not know me ?" said he. -Were we not phis haekgummon to ! get her last el erni g? and did we not agree to g together to the Lath this turning;' Ceme along. or we snail lie ; the day is breaking." Form, voice, inanner—all •at re those. of his friend. Osinand felt aga'n aslLim to hint his suspicions; , 11 : he d. termini d to put a hold a twee ~n ;old accompanied the other Into the ' street. Before they bad gone far he himself learnt ci d spie d his own Gars; so Thor did the catv and rtraightfurw at d of ti one at his side assure hini 'hat this time it ryas no tricky phantom but a real IlAing •"nisi and he yonuil a doubt. S.i I. he reir.niiiid fret') ineutioning the incident o: au hour he lore hat lie should be ti nglied at ur dis belie,ed. 'Chew pas,ed tho open place. the plane tree, and reaeht d the bath. To their :tar prise —Ostri.m . , at hest—its (.1..r w 7 de open. and the entrance hall was fully lighted up: v. t no one appeared I. b e mortirr within : the head bath ket pers. ac enstorned place was empty nor did an y antecedents come I Ira ard to meet tht m. lint 'he hathing-wrappers, tow els, w il l other requkities were all ready' put out : seine folded in their proper places: es erything neatly arranged and lit for use. "They mast have got the bath order, and then (hiding that nobody came. Lace turned in again for a nap,' said Osman's companion. Well, till some one awakes, we had best ehange our dress, and make ourselves comfortable, fur the meantime, in the heating ruum. Osman agreed, and the two exchanged their out-of- doors dress for the costume ordinary in an Eastern hath, consisting of very tep-1,1,e wrappers, and went into the large vaulted inner room, which was also lighted up and ready warmed. Here they lay down or. the raised stone dias wrainst the wall, with dome-like roof some 20 or 23 feet overhead, and the lamp hanging down from it in the centre. While they thus reclined at ease,waiting till either a servant or some other bather like tI emselves should enter. Osman, o ho had now no doubts left in his mind as to the real and bodily identity of hi s c.impanion, could not resist the tempt ation of recounting to hurt the previous adventure of the night. So he told how he had been awakened and beguiled out of d oors by a phantom exactly resembling in shape and voice the friend now beside him, and how they had almost arrived at the bath, when the spectre betrayed it belt for what it really was by the porten tous feat already described. The other listened without interrupting the story,in apparent astonishment, till the narrator concluded: "So," he subjoined, "it huh the lantern it was carrying on the top o f the big minaret, did it ? Do you think be could have managed this.'" and with these words, he lifted a Isig and a f oo t , which suddenly lengthened out just as the arm had done before, and with a kick struck the very highest point of the central vault above them, shattering to pieces the lamp where it hung. Osmand leapt up terrified, as well be might he, and found hims.ilf alone in pitch darkness, for every light in the bath had been instantaneously extinguished._ However, as he had often been in the building before, and was thoroughly well acquainted with it, he managed, in spite of his trepidation, to find his way to the door, and rushed out, HI bathing cos tume us he was, into the open air, leav ing his own clothes, which he did not venture to search after, behind him in the entrance room. But as he crosied the open space between the coffee house and the bath, he looked back, and to his horror, saw the dim and distant top of the minaret within the fortress once more lighted up by the spedtral lar tern hang ing there. Chill and trembling, be at last got beck to hie owls house. There he found his wife fast asleep; and much was she turprised when he awoke her to see him so quickly returned, and in such strange attire. He now made a clean breast of it, telling her of all that had happened to him that night from first to last, and adding, that when the day was up he would return to the bath and fetch his clothes from where he had left them. But hardly had he finished his narra tion when, to the alarm or both, the same rap that had twice been heard before was repeated outside. Osman's wife,naturally enough entreated her husband to pay no attention to it.. But,like Tam o'-Shunter in a similar case, he would not take eul vice : Ah, gentle dames! It goes me greet, T. think bow manic counsels sweet; How motile lengthened, sage adviccs, The husband fru the wife deplsest `But to our tale. Osman who was by no means a coward, and whose mental was now fairly up, swore that he would see the matter cut to the end; besides, added he, the dawn must now be near, and it could hardly be a phantom again this time. So he gut up, went, in bathing apparel as he still was, to the house door, and opened it. Sure enough, there shod his friend, or what seemed his friend, waiting. 'What is the matter with you,' asked the fignie, 'that you state so wildly at me? and how came you to be in end) a dress?, 7 5iy own wearing clothes are at the bath,' replied Osman ; and forthwith proceeded to give an account of all that he had seen that night, and how he had been twice spectre-tricked, thinking to himself, 'lf this time it be a phantom, too, like the others, I may as well provoke it to show true character at once, before we eo further.' But his friend, on bearing all this expressed the utmost astonishment. 'Me:' he said; 'why, I have only this minute left my house, and I was going quietly by myself to the bath, when it oc cum& to me that I might as well pass by your door and take the chance of calling you up, in case you might not be awake already. You must have been dreaming somehow. Anyway, let us go at once, and look fur your clothes, where you have left them, test anybody else may conic, in, the meanwhile and take a fancy to them.' Once more Osman felt sure that the speaker was his own live neighbor, and nn other. So, a"ter a little more parley, they went together, ands ion stood before the bath. And before, the outer door was wide oxen, and the interior of the build ing brightly lighted up, hut. neither bath keeper at tile entrance, nor any other liv ing mature. Osman went to the corner where he had first undressed, and there found his elothes lying, untouched and fdded, exactly as he left them. II is first intruhe was to put them on without de lay; but his friend suggested that as the bath was heateh, they might as well make ese of it; so the two entered the inner room, there to wait till the ordinary at tendiyits should enter on s nice. They eat a while and talked ; no one Came. But suddenly n ramfmied noise, like that of a (Ton d,was heard procia-ding from one of the de, p corners recesses of the hall. Osman looked that way, law saw noth ate, then turning his head back a moment towards his seeming friend, pr, yeti that his face was changed and horrible, and his stature gigantic. And now from the dark niche whence i the sound Lad been beard, issued a long. precession of countless figures—meth women, children, on foot, on lowa-back.' armed, unarmed, suld'ers,peasants,towns- , folk, spears, latices, swords, drums, fifes; a mixed multitude, large, small, gro tesque, fearful, hideous. They filled the! entire emcee; they swarmed round Os- man ; they pointed at him, they laughed, , they danced, they clamored, they sung, they played the strangest antics, till in a moment, as the first sharp cry that sum mons to wakefulness and morning prayer) sounded from the minaret gallery of the j old mosque outside, they all vanished in to nothing; the lights went suddenly out and Osman, left alone in darkness, hell fainting on the stone pavement of the ! floor. There he remained till he was thus found by the bath.keeper who entered at daylight, and was carried home, still in sensible. But before long he recovered consciousness, and told his story ; for some hours, even, he seemed none the worse fur his spectral adeentnre. As evening approached, however fever came run and for several days he was like to die ; when the crisis had passed, it lelt him paralytic, hopelessly impared in mind Ind body, a mere wreck. Such he now continues. Ilis friend, whose semblance the 'mocker" had thrice assumed, had never, as they afterwards found, left his house du! nig the fatal night, nor even till lute the following morning. A now Confidence Game. _o_ A well-dressed young man stopped ut a Vermont hotel last week, for a few days and made acquaintances. The evening of 'he second day of his arrival a nice young lady came along, unattended, and instantly attracted the attention of the impressible youngsters, who canvassed her charms fully as they set apart from her at supper. The stranger youth even went so far as to say that he would mar ry her if she would have him ; and offered for a substantial wager, to pop the ques tion and have the marriage ceremony per formed right away. The wager was ac cepted, and also the proposal wf marriage, made so suddenly to her. by— the young man, and the parson called in, who soon united the twain. The sum wagered was paid over to the happy bridegroom, and he and his bride net off next day on their marriage tour. What lends romance to the circumstance is the fact that the young couple had already been man and wife for over a year. A NEW York auctioneer, who bad beeen severely tried by the" uncertain whims of lady customers, says: "The presence of those who attend merely to see the fun is etidurahle, but the lady who bids a certain article of cloth up to nine cents a yard, and when it is knocked down to her decides to take one yard, I regard as a blot on the civilization of the nineteenth century." Aquariums are of Chinese origin. %Vanier Charms lo Florida. —o— The ancient city of St Augustine is really having a resurrection to a new life. Its genial winter climate yearly attracts wealthy people from the North, and some of them like Mr. Aspinwall and Mr. Ho ward, two New York nabobs, are building elegant mansions here. The Sisters of Mercy are about two build a convent and hospital, and the colored people are to have an asylum erected. for their benfit. The city fathers are also awakening from their Rip Van Winkle sleep, and are fill ing up the bog-holes in the streets, and even contemplating the making of a shell road one mile long,to be the grand boule vard of the future. I wish it were possible for me to describe the loveliness of this climate, and its healing effects upon invalids. Saying the thermometer stands at 80°, and the soft air is made invigorating by contact with the ocean, does not convey au adequate impression of its virtues. Recent litters from friends in the south of France, who spent the last Winter here, says the clim ate there is not to be compared with that of St. Augustine. The city is now quite full of strangers, and soon every place will be crowded. The band plays every afternoon in the plaza, calling out the crowd in happiest mood,and at sunset the stages drive in from the depot, blowing their bugles, announcing the arrivals of northern mails as well as passengers. The orange trees are , now budded, and will soon be in full bloom. A few peach trees have also opened their delicate flower buds, hut they are a little in advance of the season. Sailing parties are now in fashion, and I will describe one we recently enjoyed. Our first land was the light house, upon Anastasia island, where, from the out look, we obtained a fine view of the Flor ida coast, and could look far off upon the ocean, beyond the breakers. ehile imagi nation carried us back 330 years, to the days of those early adventurers who land ed hero when thin continent was au un broken wilderness. Yet, this is the beau tiful Florida, where they spent their first Easter Sunday, and I fancied I could trace their path on the water, and realize their excitement as they landed. From the lighthouse we walked to the coquina quarries, where most of the building ma terial of St. Augustine is obtained. The coquina is a shell formation, which I be lie ve, is found in no other part of the world. It is composed of fine and broken shells, cemented by some action of the water here. Prof. Dana speaks of it in his recent work on corals, but given no geological explanation of its formation.— It is cut in blocks, suitable fur building, and is a little soft when first taken out, lint hardens on exposure to the air. The houses built of it are in the old Spanish style, with large balconies hanging from the second story over the narrow streets. From the island we sailed to the north beach„ where the dashing of the waves has sendered the accumulation of shells very arm. ana where we took a long walk searching for sea-beans, that are often washed up from distant shores. We re turned e Ith voracious appetites to dine off the finest of venison and wild duck, with vegetables fresh from the garden, and oranges just gathered from the trees. At dinner, while we were holdtng In ani mated discussion on the question of unit ing all different religious denominations, a dove flea- in through an open door, flattered a f,:w moments over our heads, and then took its demirture, leaving ns to wet pt and profit by the omen if we would. After dinner, we walked to the cem , ,tery, near the barracks. whore long lines of-our soldiers are sleeping under the orange trees, and where three coquina pyramids cover the remainsof Major Dude and a hundred of his command who were massacred by Oseola and his tribe during the Seminole war. There is now a small force stationed at the barracks, under command of Major Corcoran, to protect us trom all enemies, and our beautiful flag is always floating there.— Correspondence Springfield Repablicau. Speak Out. Walter Savage Landor used to relate an anecdote of one of our judges who, being on circuit, two old men were brought be fore him as witnesses, and. according to custom, he begun to chat with them ; among other things, about their age, for the purpose of giving a moral lesson to the young barristers. - "Well, my good man," (laid he to the first witness, "how old may you be ?" "About eighty-seven, my lord." "1 dummy, now, you have lived a very sober life ?" "Yes, my lorl ; I have not been tipsy for the last sixty years." "There !" cried his lordship, turning to the gentlemen of the bar, "you see what a fine thing sobriety is. The witness rooks 113 though ho would live twenty years yet. The barristers nodded assent. In his turn, another witness came forward, who looked particularly hale and robust. "How old uro you, friend ?" inquired the judge. "Ninety-five, my lord," was the reply. "Ninety-five ! I'll answer for it, you've led a sober life—haven't you ?" Witness hung his head and answered: "I don't like to answer afore all these gen tlemen." "Never mind : speak." "Well then, my lord, I haven't gone to bed sober the last seventy years." At this the judge locked rather blank, and the bar smiled. The judge then said: "We will proceed with the case, gentle men.—Chamber's journal. FEW people realize how many acres are unoccupied in the Great West. There are eleven Territories, two or three of which are twice or three times as 'large as all of New England, and it is a small Territory that is not at least ten times as large as Massachusetts. Colorado is thir teen times as largo as Massachusetts, while Dakota and Arazona are half as large again as Colordo. The eleven Ter ritories contain over ono billion and a quarter acres, exceeding by nearly two hundred thousand square miles the ag gregate territory of all the present admit ted States of the Union. The territory of Alaska contains 869,529,600 acres. Terms tr TWO DOI:LAM PER TZAR IN ADVANCE' _V NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. LO CT& =TEA. fit. Patrick'. Dream. BY THOMAS D'AILCT )AOEE. -0- Poor Is the pallets he dreams upon. In the holy city, St. Martin's of Tours; Is it a beam of the morning sun Finches that face so pale and pure? Is it the my of a cloister lamp? Is it some chalice jewel bright? No I sight and the cell are dim and damp— Here nor earthly nor astril light I Oh, such a dream ! From Foclut wood, sear thesounding sea of an earlier day, Ten thousand - voices, well understood, Spoke! and thcolceper heard them say: "Pear the unborn! by the hand Of the angel Victor—swift Is he! Oh, Patrick, far in thy Christian lend, Erin's unborn we send to thee!" Ar.d then he dreamt that St. Victorstood By his pallet in that cell of Tours— And the cries were bushed in Forint wood But the heavenly messenger,swill and sure, Presents the scroll that bore their prayer, In the speech of his exile fairly wnt And waking, the Saint beheld it there— And these were the words he read from it: 'Come! holy one, long pre-onlain'd, Fur thee, the SWEICIEfit Lir are singing: Come ! from the morning, Orient stain'd. Thy mass bell through our valley's ringing! Man of the hooded hosts arise? Physician, lo! our souls lie dying— Ilear o'er the sea our piteous cries, On thee and on our God relying I Come powerful youth or Silemish hill Come in the name and might of Come with the psalm that charms Cross-bearer! Christ-pi eparer The sleeper mad! still doubts arose— Till to Aurora's touches red He held the scroll—repeating those Wild suppliant words the - Unborn said lie looted where late the angel pass'd, Many the big drops on his brow ; Ills robe he girt, his stair be grasped, lie only said: "In God's name, Now r PoMooing by Wholesale. A correspondent writing from Kinzer's station, Lancaster county, furnishes the Express the following: It is seldom the tranquility of our community is disturb ed or its inhabitants startled at anything occurring within its limits; but we have to chronicle a case, which, from the res pectability of the parties concerned, is likely to create a sensation, not only in the neighborhood in which it happened, but throughout the whole comity. The facts as we hear them are us fellows: There lived in Salisbury township, Lancaster county, a man by the name of Henry Eaby, a miller by occupation. and a well-to-day and highly respected citizen. He was also a member of the Mennonite church, of which sect there is a predominancy in this section of the county. About two years ago his wife and two children were taken suddenly sick about the same time and manner.— Aid was at once summoned, and the phy sicians pronounced the symptoms, in all three cases, those of poison. flow the poison got into the system of the victims was a meatary yet to be solved. The phy sicians examined the premiseV, and gave as their opinion that it might have come from the well, •which was adjacent to a stagnant pool of water, known as the dam. Mr. Eaby had the well thorough ly cleansed and the supposed evil remov ed. The victims, however, all soon after taking sick. But about two months ago Mr. Euby, after eating his supper,was taken with sudden sickness, and remark ed while drinking the last cup of coffee, at the table, that it tasted so bitter and was different from the former cup he had drank and inquired of the others if their's tastes so to them, they answering in the negative. The same physician that attended the others who had died was dispatched for, and upon his arrival asked him if he (Eaby) had any enemies—te which those who were,aroubd answered "that he had not au enemey to their knowledge; that every one liked him." The physician said the man was poisoned. lie lingered for a few days and died. It is now con fidently believed that the whole family were intentionally poisoned, and thou sand tongued rumor has been indus triously at work for some time circulating stories of lhr most exciteing character. But it is generally conceded in the neighborhood that circumstances point very strongly to the guilt of a certain party in the vicinity. Although the natne of the suspected party is in our possession we do not mean to mention it unless criminal preceedings are instituted. We await developments. Opium Eating InSchools. _o_ Much indignation has been excited by the discovery that, venders of opium are in the habit of surreptitiously sending it, prepared in candy and lozengers, to boys' and girls' schools, seminaries and colleges. A box of the preparation is sent to some pupil whose name bas been ascertained, with a circular containing directions for its use. The circular also sets forth, in glowing terms, the advant ages to be derived from the use of the candy or lozengers. Among those ad vantages is alleged to be such a sharpen ing of the mind as will enable the pupil using the preparation to get his or her lessons pith but little mental effort, and to carry off the prizes with perfect ease. Such a lure as that is almost sore to catch idle young people, and ambitions pupils also. The habit. of using the opium once established, the victim is unable to shake off; and the beloved son or daughter. all unknown to the parents at home, lays the foundation for a wrecked life and a blighted career. Sometimes the pupils communicate the secret to their intimate associates, and the school becomes largely infected with the pernicious practices. Men who seek, by this stealthily emot ing of an appetite in them for opium, to ruin the minds and bodies of the young, deserve the severest punishment. The evil is a frightful one, and parents and teachers cannot be too vigilant in guard ing against it. A GEOUGEIAN, by no means fairjlately borrowed his grundmother'slast dollar to pay a eartman for taking her to the poor• house. Preferred orediton:—Those that don't dun. ci NUMBER 14. IteMous Notes. ——o— THE increase of the Baptists in this country last year, it is stated, was 69,698. Nomfxo can . make man truly great lint being truly good,; and partaking of God's holiness. NEVER mind where you work; care more how you work. Never mind who sees if God approves. HE who opens hie heart tor the recep tion of Divine truth, will never walt fur the Grace that ho seeks. WHEN the arrow of a believer's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's interces sion, it pierceth the very heavens. Goo's bible is opened to the heart by the spirit; and Christ is the key that fits every word, both in the book and in the heart. CHRISTIAN perfection in outward con duct consists, not in doing extraordinary wellthings,but in doing things extraordinarly Tits fact is, when a person consecrates himself, soul and body, to God, he no longer donbts,but believes with the whok heart. IN the State of Missouri since the war a single missionary , of the American Su nday School Union has organized twenty seven churches. E who has a pure heart will never cease to pray ;and he who will be constant in prayer shall know what it iR to hare pure heart. It( all temptations be not discour hese surges may be not to brealcrt "T but to heave thee off thyself on the Rook, Christ IT is incumbent on every Christian to ascertain for what ho is qualified and what service he is called to perform for the body of which he is a member. COLD indeed is the heart of him that remains untouched at the thoughtof that Providence which suffers not a sparrow to fall to the ground without our lieavuly Father's notice. G RACE Church, New Yolk, contributed the past year for charitable purpo3ee 8149,800 50, including 00,000 given by a member for "GOte Church." THE Methodist Episcopal parsonage at Castle Penn, York county, Pa., was burn ed to the ground a short time ago. The fire was caused by a defect in the frue.Not insured. THERE are 5.487 churches in the State of Ohio, 225 Roman Catholic, capable of seating in all 2,884,386 people, or nearly one church fur every 1,000 of tho inhabi tants. New York City has had ninety-one Presbyterian churches. Tho first church of this denomination was organized in 1706, and the first house of worship was built in 1719. Mors have been purchased in New York City by the Russian Government on which to erect a Greek church. Building will begin as soon as orders are received trout headquarters. LET Tour religion be seen. Lamps da not talk, but they do shone. A lighthouse beats no drum, it beats no gong; end yet far - river the water its friendly light is Been by the mariner. PROFAICE Swearing is abominable. Vttl. gar !angling° is disgusting. Loud laugh ter is impolite. Inquisitiveness is ottlin sive. Tattling is mean. Telling • false hood is contemptible. Ignorance is dis graceful, and laziness is shameful. PROFANITY never did any man the least gObii. No man is richer,or happier, or wiser for it. It commends no one to society. It is disgusting to the reified and abominable to the good. THE t h t ictien Advocate says: "Com mend us to that Baptist brother who, on going into the wu''a to be baptised, re. plied to the snggestioe that he had better tukc his pocket-book out of his pocket during the ordinance, 'No. I want ray pocket-book baptised with me." TUE Congregationalists are concentra ting their energies. The building com l . 'Acted in Boston, is worth nearly half a million. The Publication Society, For eign Mission Board, Home Mission, Li brary Association and the Congregation alist will occupy rooms in the building. DR. BREUER:MIDGE, in a Be rri. speaking of the e ff orts of modern ail* dell to throw discredit upon Christianity,. uttered this bold language: "Why, sir; you might as well plant your aboulder against the burning wheel of the mid-day sun, and try to hurl it back behind tha horizon, into night!" Nearly three years ago a_ noble steamer was sinking with hundreds of people on board. 0! ly one bout load was saved.— As a men was leaping into the tossing boat, a girl who could not be taken into the boat, and who knew that she . would soon be swallowed up in the deep, deep sea, handed him d note, saying: "Giro this to my mother.' The mau wes cavS ed. The girl, with hundreds of °that persons, was drowned. The mother had the note. What do yon think tho little girl had written iu it? ITere are her words: "Dear mother, you must not grieve for me ; I amgoing to Jeans. Dear girl ! What faith and courage the must have had to write that note. • She was going to Jesus through the stormy waves t.O the angry sec; and she WEI not afraid. Sui.stros Szcr.—A Michigan et. change tells tie of a Strange Sect which has its abiding place at Battle Creek An that State. It is called the Setenth Day Adventurests, and its members look for the coming of the Saviour soon, but do not fix any precise date—wherein the; ars wiser than the Mi aro wealthy as A community, emil act:l for street integrity and the ce,upe.ous liners of their dwellings. T:aey in the'water cure, and their e.:l7.ll:ehmsat at Battle Creek is the resort of invaliu from nil parts of the country. 'They a publishing house, tract hpute, aroma, and.are as fond of nutbakttetle,i, .as if they did not a - pect to ;:o ,to forams tium ."
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